Site Reliability Engineer II

Careem is building ‘the everything app’ for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

Site Reliability Engineer II

Careem is the leading technology platform for the greater Middle East. A pioneer of the region’s ride-

hailing economy, Careem is expanding services across its platform to include payments, delivery and

mass transportation. Careem’s mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting

institution that inspires.

Established in July 2012, Careem operates in more than 100+ cities across 14 countries and has created

more than one million job opportunities in the region and hosts over 30 million users




ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for someone passionate about automation, tooling, and frameworks to join the

Developer Experience (DevX) team. You will be part of the team that has the mandate to enable

engineers across all functional divisions at Careem to move as fast as possible, while maintaining our

high quality and correctness expectations. DEVx work ranges from maintaining our CICD fleet, to

optimizing our build and release workflows, to more SRE flavored work providing monitoring and

visibility




Key responsibilities include:

• Engage with engineers throughout Careem to learn about pain points, and work alongside a

technical lead to define and prioritize solutions.

• Architect systems/solutions with a focus on scalability, testability, and maintainability


• Encourages and supports others to take on responsibility, authority, and accountability


• Support the rest of the DEVx team in adoption by Engineers in such a way that makes on-

boarding pleasant and seamless.

• Design, write and review application code.


• Develop, maintain, and extend a variety of systems, including open-source, ready-made, and in-

house applications.

• Collaborate, coach, and mentor colleagues on an energetic, growing team.


• You'll have the opportunity to extend our existing Solutions. This will include modifying or

developing code Java, Python, GO and different frameworks




Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training,

fellowship, or work experience.

• Expert Knowledge in Developing and debugging in one these Java, Go, Python,Bash.


• Experience with terraform and Cloud Formation.

• Experience with other programming languages is a plus.• Experience of building systems, dashboards and metrics to facilitate a data-driven approach to




problem resolution

• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers is a plus.


• Unquenchable thirst for learning new things.


• Obsession about keeping costs low while building solutions.


• Experience of Kubernetes is a plus.

Where you'll be:

• Even though we are working remotely, we are strong believers in collaboration and the power

of building social connections with our teams. For that reason, our offices are still open and

provide plenty of collaboration-friendly spaces at times when teams need it or if you need a

quiet space to work outside of home.

• You’ll be working in the location you’re hired from. Due to legal and compensation

considerations, you will need to be based out of the country you’re hired from as your primary

work location

What we'll provide you

In addition to a competitive long-term total compensation with salary and equity, we have a reward philosophy that expands beyond this. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:

• Be part of a Remote-First organization that offers flexible ways of working from the office and home.


• Work from any country in the world for 30 days a year


• Use Unlimited Vacation days throughout the year


• Access fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.


• Work and learn from great minds


• Create impact in a region with untapped potential


• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day